James was the “game creator” or at least, the owner of that company. Monumental has just gotten the rights to the game they are not developing or controlling it yet.
It doesn’t matter who owned the game when or for how long regarding the fact that you have to click the mouse thousands of times just to process the output of a normal T6 mining trip into 2nd stage materials.
QoL is a common abbreviation for “quality of life” and it’s not about “fair gameplay” or any of that. It’s just about making so that the game is not physically (or mentally) hard on the players.
There’s a big difference between “a challenge” like trying to fight a mob, and a “quality of life issue” like having to click 30 times on a machine to queue a batch of materials.
There’s not any reason that it should be hard to put your materials into your crafting machine. That’s not “a challenge” it’s a problem.
So on, with several other aspects of the game. For years.
Again that’s James, he was the CEO and representative of wonderstruck who created the game. People asked about macros and such for a long time. The first time I asked was April of 2019 I think.
Roughly a year later, he finally stated an answer. Sort of. It wasn’t entirely clear and as you can see, some people still feel it’s “arguable”. I see that if you’re not familiar with who the people are, you wouldn’t understand why people keep quoting this statement:
Botting + Scripting to avoid actually playing the game is against the rules.
(Scripting as a means to play with a disability is acceptable IMO.)
It’s the only time that the creator/owner ever spoke about macros or bots, clearly and in public.
Now we have a new owner, and people want a new answer. Or at least a clear answer.
EDIT More for others who don’t know the history or why it seems like a big deal here is part of it:
He didn’t make an answer to a thread like this
He didn’t make an answer to a thread like this:
And then he just randomly goes into a thread where somebody is selling coils one day, and makes a solid statement about botting 
I think honestly most of the older players are so happy for new management.